How to format your references using the FEMS Yeast Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for FEMS Yeast Research. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Swisher SN. Space station research: details please. Science 2000;290:453e–4e.

A journal article with 2 authors

Huang ZJ, Luo L. NEUROSCIENCE. It takes the world to understand the brain. Science 2015;350:42–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Harris RA, Rogers J, Milosavljevic A. Human-specific changes of genome structure detected by genomic triangulation. Science 2007;316:235–7.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lancrin C, Sroczynska P, Stephenson C et al. The haemangioblast generates haematopoietic cells through a haemogenic endothelium stage. Nature 2009;457:892–5.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Kuo JB, Lin S-C. Low-Voltage SOI CMOS VLSI Devices and Circuits. New York, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002.

An edited book

Kamerman SB, Phipps S, Ben-Arieh A eds. From Child Welfare to Child Well-Being: An International Perspective on Knowledge in the Service of Policy Making. 1st ed. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Buur J, Stienstra M. Towards Generic Interaction Styles for Product Design. In: Jacko JA (ed.). Human-Computer Interaction. Interaction Design and Usability: 12th International Conference, HCI International 2007, Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007, Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2007, 30–9.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for FEMS Yeast Research.

Blog post

Andrew E. Study Suggests There are Only Two Subspecies of Tigers. IFLScience 2015.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. Highway Congestion: Intelligent Transportation Systems’ Promise for Managing Congestion Falls Short, and DOT Could Better Facilitate Their Strategic Use. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Pathak A. The Role of the Protein Phosphatase 1 Inhibitor-1 In Regulation of Murine Cardiac Physiology and Progression of Cardiomyopathy. 2006.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Gustines GG, Kepler AW. Not All Superheroes Are Equal (At Least the Second Time Around). New York Times. October 1, 2011:C5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Swisher 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Swisher 2000; Huang and Luo 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Huang and Luo 2015)
Three authors: (Harris, Rogers and Milosavljevic 2007)
4 or more authors: (Lancrin et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	FEMS Yeast Research
Abbreviation	FEMS Yeast Res.
ISSN (print)	1567-1356
ISSN (online)	1567-1364
Scope	Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Microbiology General Medicine